# CVE-2021-24578: SportsPress < 2.7.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

> Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in the SportsPress WordPress plugin backend via the match_day parameter, potentially compromising admin sessions.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Dec 2021
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jjmw-3x38-cvq5

## What is CVE-2021-24578?

CVE-2021-24578 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager, published on 21 Dec 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The SportsPress WordPress plugin before 2.7.9 does not sanitise and escape its match_day parameter before outputting back in the Events backend page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24578?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Themeboy Sportspress.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24578?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24578 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24578 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24578 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager

- [CVE-2020-13892](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-13892/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-1178](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1178/): SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager <= 2.7.17 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Event Permalink Update (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-3986](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3986/): SportsPress < 2.7.22 - Admin+ Stored XSS (medium 4.8)
- [CVE-2024-34824](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-34824/): WordPress SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager plugin <= 2.7.20 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24578 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24578 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager, published on 21 Dec 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24578 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24578/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24578/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24578
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24578
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24578

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24578/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.